Word: metaphor
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...dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann, the eminent German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this...
Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
...importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
Asido from this initial difficulty, what of the commuter (to drop our metaphor) who, changing his locale, comes to live at the college; or what of him that abandons dormitory-life for residence at home? Does the first become, tipso facto, "assimilated", and the second, vice versa...
...there are better and fairer ways to enjoy brotherhood with the new infant. One man has discovered an excellent way, for--to continue the metaphor he admits the child's right to dominance and, freed from the responsibility of such prestige, goes his way rejoining. So his lectures are but marginal notes on his text, modern and succinct comments by a scholar and gentleman upon a masterpiece of literatures. And Seniors attend his lectures for the gain to be derived from his personality and his knowledge...